"always made interesting and amusing posts." thats what I was saying :)

welcome back phibian! its good to see more of the ?lost coming trickling back in.

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January 26th, 2006 11:03pm

I usually don't have time to post anymore - I mainly lurk; trapped by not wanting to show up in a google search actually posting the things I'd have to write in order to keep up with the soap opera you live ;)

And when I do, I seem to have a genius for picking old threads. Means I get the last word... Probably something deeply psychotic about that.

It's the talking about everything thing that I have been careful / paranoid about, to the point of generally using different nicknames if venting about people and trying to avoid giving away too much personal information.

See, there is something to be said for having a conversation with people who don't _know_ whether I am male or female, black, white, or polka-dotted, whether I am young or old. I don't care if people know I am Canadian (pretty obvious from my site), a business owner, a non-smoker and married (all pieces of information I decided to part with a while ago). I don't know whether I ever talked about my educational background (don't think so).

Usually I find that people assume that I am whatever gender they are, unless they are *hem* somewhat feminist *hem* in which case I've found I am more often taken to be male, especially if I express an alternate point of view (*cough* sharkfish *cough*).

I also find that people tend to assume that I am whatever age they are. Unless they are young and I talk about some work experience in which case I am a crusty old fart that doesn't know what I am talking about. Or if they are later 30's and up and disagree with me, short of knowing my age I am assumed to be a wet-behind-the-eyes young whippersnapper that will learn as I gain experience.

The kind of assumptions you make when you don't know someone are very revealing. And it keeps me entertained. So I am loathe to give it up.